The Beaches of Agnes

2008
France
112 min
18

Directed by: Agnès Varda
Written by: Agnès Varda
Cast: Agnès Varda

This idiosyncratic cinematic self-portrait of the Belgian-born octogenarian film-maker Agnes Varda is suffused by its feminist creator's playfully eccentric spirit, and heads off in all sorts of unexpected directions. Varda 'walks backwards' through her life, narrating and drawing on clips from her own films and staging reconstructions of her memories, whilst revisiting the places which have shaped her creative output.

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